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conception is, indeed, a notable characteristic of evolu- 

 tionism : for it must assume that the universe at the 

 first moment of its existence in the knowable, contains 

 the whole law of its future history, including implicitly 

 the entire order now existing. But the cosmos has 

 not originated the law that moulds it : it is no more 

 credible that it should have originated the law in 

 accordance with which its movements are directed, 

 than that it should have produced the matter of which 

 it consists. This order must also be referred back to 

 the ultimate cause. 



(3.) A necessary condition of experience is a self- 

 conscious intelligence; where there is no one to see,, 

 there is nothing seen. Man is himself one of the con- 

 crete existences in the universe, and his thought is the 

 most notable of its phenomena. How has intelligence 

 come to be ? we seek an adequate cause and find none 

 till we have ascended to the Primal Cause. 



(4.) Experience shows everywhere adjustments of 

 means to ends. It will not satisfy reason to turn, as 

 the evolutionist does, from these adjustments to the 

 mode in which they have been produced, and to argue 

 that having been brought about in this or that manner 

 they are not to be regarded as adaptations that there 

 is in them no evidence of purpose. Suppose, with the 

 evolutionist, that the order of the movement of things 

 produces necessarily in process of time manifold adap- 

 tations ; suppose a tendency to adjust the balance of 

 each thing with its environment to be the very prin- 



